... I have done a complete hard drive install which said it was OK, but I seem to have a MAYBE installation that works sometimes, but usually gives me a # prompt halfway through booting and stops there!

...The entire machine belongs to Puppy, (no windoze involved)

...If I leave the boot disk in the drive, it boots fine but this sort of defeats the purpose of installing it.

The # prompt will give me a mess of confusing commands if I type HELP and return... But can I get it to load from that point? Duh

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Okay. The first thing to note is that you only have 64MB of RAM. This is workable if you do a full install and set up a swap file, but if the machine needs to constantly use it, then this reduces the life of the hard disk drive.

Puppy can run from USB, yes, but in this case you'll need a swap file, and old BIOSes don't boot from USB anyway, so either way, you'll be creating some new partitions on your hard drive.

May I suggest using Slitaz? It's not as large as Puppy, but still supports Firefox, most ethernet cards, and you should be able to do a fair bit of work on it using AbiWord and Gnumeric (I think OpenOffice would be a bit too large, unless you ran it as a portable app from a USB drive).

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Also I have 3 G USB ZTE EVDO AC8700 800M Wireless Card work on this os

You can get EVDOs to run with Linux, yes. How it will fare, 'out of the box' - I don't know.

... I have done a complete hard drive install which said it was OK, but I seem to have a MAYBE installation that works sometimes, but usually gives me a # prompt halfway through booting and stops there!

...The entire machine belongs to Puppy, (no windoze involved)

...If I leave the boot disk in the drive, it boots fine but this sort of defeats the purpose of installing it.

The # prompt will give me a mess of confusing commands if I type HELP and return... But can I get it to load from that point? Duh

This has happened to me during booting up. I have successfully installed Puppy 4.3.1 and the GRUB. Everything works fine for a while.

Then all of a sudden when I boot up to use the computer, It goes to a command prompt and not the window manager. On two previous occasion, I had to re-install from scratch.
Is there any command i can execute to fire up the window manager ?

... I have done a complete hard drive install which said it was OK, but I seem to have a MAYBE installation that works sometimes, but usually gives me a # prompt halfway through booting and stops there!

...The entire machine belongs to Puppy, (no windoze involved)

...If I leave the boot disk in the drive, it boots fine but this sort of defeats the purpose of installing it.

The # prompt will give me a mess of confusing commands if I type HELP and return... But can I get it to load from that point? Duh

This has happened to me during booting up. I have successfully installed Puppy 4.3.1 and the GRUB. Everything works fine for a while.

Then all of a sudden when I boot up to use the computer, It goes to a command prompt and not the window manager. On two previous occasion, I had to re-install from scratch.
Is there any command i can execute to fire up the window manager ?

BTW, most Linux commands seem to work at the command prompt.

Thanks and regards,

Sanjay

I executed..

# startx

followed the prompts and the window manager came up. I then rebooted and all is well.

Okay. The first thing to note is that you only have 64MB of RAM. This is workable if you do a full install and set up a swap file, but if the machine needs to constantly use it, then this reduces the life of the hard disk drive.

Puppy can run from USB, yes, but in this case you'll need a swap file, and old BIOSes don't boot from USB anyway, so either way, you'll be creating some new partitions on your hard drive.

May I suggest using Slitaz? It's not as large as Puppy, but still supports Firefox, most ethernet cards, and you should be able to do a fair bit of work on it using AbiWord and Gnumeric (I think OpenOffice would be a bit too large, unless you ran it as a portable app from a USB drive).

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Also I have 3 G USB ZTE EVDO AC8700 800M Wireless Card work on this os

You can get EVDOs to run with Linux, yes. How it will fare, 'out of the box' - I don't know.

Greetings to the Puppy community,
I've got a bit of a problem in my Linux home, and it isn't windows.
My brother's old laptop is running Ubuntu Jaunty, and he doesn't want to move up to Karmic or above. It's getting increasingly difficult to maintain it on this older version, so we've started looking into alternatives.

Puppy caught his attention (and mine, too) but there's a problem - his laptop doesn't have a CD drive. Not even a USB one, because the USB port is.... at best, unreliable.
So having put Ubuntu on there via a netboot install, I'm wondering if it's possible to serve a Puppy boot image the same way, and install from that.
I had a look, and found a page on the Puppy site saying it was possible, but not documented and pointed to a link - which 404'd on me.

So, I come and ask... can anyone solve this little problem and bring Puppy to this old laptop of his?
(If it's of any use, by the way, the laptop is an old Dell Latitude C400)

Hi everyone. I like Puppy a lot. I've been using it for about a year now, on and off. I have a question that probably doesn't come up very often any more: can I start an install from a floppy? I was messing around with an old Nobilis laptop last night and ended up wiping out the setup info in the BIOS. Now the bios won't recognize the DVD ROM drive. It must have had some strange configuration that I should have looked at before removing the CMOS battery. Hindsight is 20/20, I guess. Anyway, I'd like to make this laptop all Puppy, but I can't boot from the install CD because the BIOS won't can't see the drive. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

edit: nevermind. I figured it out. I used wakepup2 to make a boot floppy.

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